Having myself waxed rapturous over the @MayorEmanuel tweet stream, I can't help but feel a little disappointed that the mystery is no longer a mystery. I'm not nearly as disappointed as Jim DeRogatis is, because, hey, that Twitter account was a brilliant, engrossing, and uplifting example of a new form of literature, accidental as that might have been, and its author has every right to reap the benefits of his achievement. My disappointment is more that of a fan for whom part of the thrill was the not knowing, and the hope that we would never know. Did you honestly want to know for certain whether or not that top in Inception was ever going to stop spinning? I didn't.

But to be pragmatic, it was probably better that Dan Sinker control the revelation than that someone else out him, which no doubt would have happened sooner or later. And at least now we know whom to nominate for that Hugo next year in the Best Related Work category. (Hey, Chicago in 2012!)

Hats off, Mr. Sinker. As your character wrote: "Only things that fucking suck never end: look at laundry, or dishes."

I had been meaning to do this anyway, but here's a selection of some of my favorite @MayorEmanuel tweets, selected by the very scientific method of searching my own tweet stream for the nuggets I retweeted over the past few months. I've provided a bit of context where necessary.

[SACRIFICE IN THE TIME VORTEX]"There must be something we can do..." But there's not. Only things that fucking suck never end: look at laundry, or dishes.23 Feb[/SACRIFICE IN THE TIME VORTEX]

This can only give a bit of the flavor of the feed, if you haven't followed it. For two good distillations of the story's climax, I still recommend you read Tim Carmody's "The Two Mayors" and "The Last Hours of @MayorEmanuel."

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And at least now we know whom to nominate for that Hugo next year in the Best Related Work category. (Hey, Chicago in 2012!)

Now that the nominating period is actually open - and perhaps more to the point, now that the entire saga is available in book format - where do things stand with this campaign? Because I am ALL the fuck for it. But do we nominate the original Twitter feed, or the book? (Will the administrators be generous enough to recognize the nominations for either format as a single work, if the vote is split?)

For extra bonus lulz, the captcha I got for this comment: "The Guitho, which I figure is close enough to Guido for our purposes.

I'm consulting with some more fucking knowledgable folks than I about what category we should nominate in. I think the twitter stream and book should be nominated together, just to keep from splitting the vote.

In any event, sometime in the next week I'll make a blog post about the campaign, and we'll get this fucker off the ground!